Thursday, November 8, 2012

NPR Puzzlw 11/4/12 Crunch Granola Style

The words "organic" and "natural" are both commonly seen at health food
stores. What other seven-letter word, also commonly seen at health food
stores, has five letters in common with organic and five letters in
common with natural?

I liked this one. The answer is GRANOLA, which shares O, R, G, N & A with ORGANIC and R, A N, L & A with NATURAL.

I looked at photos of granola over on Flickr. They exist, but boy are they boring. So I found a cat named Granola.

Our tie-break rule: In the event
that a single round number is announced with a qualifier such as
"about" or "around" (e.g., "We received around 1,200 entries."), AND two
separate people picked the ranges of numbers just before and just after
that round number, the prize will be
awarded to whichever
entrant had not already won
a prize, or in the event that
both entrants had won a
prize already or neither had,
then to the earlier of the
two entries on the
famous judicial principle of
"First Come First Serve,"
(or in technical legal jargon,
"You Snooze, You Lose"). As of July 2012, this rule is officially no longer obsolete (and also I still just like having fine print).